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Five Reasons Why I Love Wordpress

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It was first released in May 2003 by its co-founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little as the successor to b2/cafelog. It is powered by PHP and a SQL data backend. As of September 2009, Wordpress is used by 62.8 million websites in the US and 202 million websites worldwide. Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

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LinkedIn, Social Media And Bubbles

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It's just hard to imagine that an online social network specifically targeted to the business professional suddenly has a valuation that rivals brands like Tiffany & Co. For years, I've Blogged about the merits and quality of LinkedIn over other online social networks. On top of that, LinkedIn is a business.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

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Of course, the entirety of social media cant be summed up in one blog post, so these are just a handful of subjects listed below. Lesson # 1 Personal Branding. Dan Schawbel , EMCs first social media specialist, returned to Bentley College to do a presentation about personal branding and social media.

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A Brief History of Social Media [Infographic]

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Let’s take a look at the history of social media. The Top 8, Birth of Facebook, and 140 Characters: 2003-2009. In 2003, Myspace launched and took off across the web. The very same year, surprisingly, LinkedIn launched as a professional networking and job posting site. billion social media users across the world.

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Eloqua, TopRank, Demandbase and More – OMS Minneapolis Wrapup

Webbiquity SMM

Tap your internal subject matter experts and help them create personal brands. Every two days, we now (collectively) create as much information as was created from the dawn of time through 2003 (according to Eric Schmidt)–5 exabytes of data. Don’t just send them to your mobile site home page. BeeTag is her favorite.

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6 Tips for Building a Successful LinkedIn Company Page

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Let future philosophers decide whether LinkedIn is a social network for professionals or a professional network with a social overlay. LinkedIn started its life in 2003 as a resource for job seekers and recruiters, but in the intervening years, its functions have multiplied considerably.

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Most recently, the site launched a co-branded version of their service for Best Buy. featurelist.org is very similar to IdeaScale, but more public, not branded, and focused on software. social networking. social media. mobile web. social news. social networks. business networking.